{"id":3022,"date":"2011-01-20T22:49:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T06:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2011-01-20T22:49:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T06:49:24","slug":"new-issue-of-critical-education-why-the-standards-movement-failed-an-educational-and-political-diagnosis-of-its-failure-and-the-implications-for-school-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2011\/01\/new-issue-of-critical-education-why-the-standards-movement-failed-an-educational-and-political-diagnosis-of-its-failure-and-the-implications-for-school-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"New issue of Critical Education: &#8220;Why the Standards Movement Failed: An Educational and Political Diagnosis of Its Failure and the Implications for School Reform&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of Larry Stedman&#8217;s analysis of the failure of the standards movement, just published by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaleducation.org\"> Critical Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m1.cust.educ.ubc.ca\/journal\/index.php\/criticaled\/article\/view\/134\"><em>Why the Standards Movement Failed: An Educational and Political Diagnosis of Its Failure and the Implications for School Reform<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nLawrence C. Stedman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first paper, \u201cHow Well Does the Standards Movement Measure Up?,\u201d I documented the movement\u2019s failure in diverse areas\u2014academic achievement, equality of opportunity, quality of learning, and graduation rates\u2014and described its harmful effects on students and school culture. <\/p>\n<p>In this paper, I diagnose the reasons for the failure and propose an alternative agenda for school reform.  I link the failure of the standards movement to its faulty premises, historical myopia, and embrace of test-driven accountability.  As part of the audit culture and the conservative restoration, the movement ended up pushing a data-driven, authoritarian form of schooling.  Its advocates blamed educational problems on a retreat from standards, for which there was little evidence, while ignoring the long-standing, deep structure of schooling that had caused persistent achievement problems throughout the 20th century.  Drawing on reproduction theories and analyses of the neoliberal reform project, I make the case for repealing NCLB and Race to the Top and outline a progressive framework for reconstructing schools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of Larry Stedman&#8217;s analysis of the failure of the standards movement, just published by Critical Education. Why the Standards Movement Failed: An Educational and Political Diagnosis of Its Failure and the Implications for School Reform Lawrence C. Stedman Abstract In the first paper, \u201cHow Well Does the Standards Movement Measure Up?,\u201d I documented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2152,73154,103,148],"tags":[4772,3219,2676,2244,2267,364,8485],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-reform","category-education-theory-research","category-social-studies","category-testing","tag-critical-education","tag-education-policy","tag-journals","tag-nclb","tag-publications","tag-research","tag-standards-based-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}